CalendarView today date item click

Question

I searched a lot on the internet and I couldn\'t succeed to find correct solution for CalendarView click on today date.

Answer 1

A review of CalendarView.java indicates that the highlighted row is overrided by an internal private class which consumes the touch event, so neither OnClickListener() nor OnTouchListener() will work.

The first (harder) options is to make your own copy of CalendarView.java (call it MyCustomCalendarView.java) and include it into your project. Within MyCustomCalendarView.java, add code to register an OnTouchListener like so:

private View.OnTouchListener touchListener;
@Override
public void setOnTouchListener( View.OnTouchListener otl) {
    touchListener = otl;
}

Then in the private class WeeksAdapter's OnTouch() method, add this line:

@Override
 public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
     if (mListView.isEnabled() && mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(event)) {
         touchListener.onTouch(v, event);
     ...

Then MyCustomCalendarView could be used as follows:

MyCustomCalendarView thisCalendar = (MyCustomCalendarView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.mycustom_calendar_view_layout_id);
thisCalendar.setOnTouchListener(myCustomListener);

Another (easier) alternative is to add a button to the calendarView layout, and use the button's onClickListener (plus maybe a flag variable) to detect whether any date has been selected. In this case, selecting the current date will be the same as "no date selected" from the device's point of view, so you can use that fact to write in today's date, or other custom actions.

You can use datetimepicker-library's date picker layout to help you get started: